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Originally Posted by ruchai
The reason Nikon can make D50 smaller than D70s is probably because of the use of smaller SD card.
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The Canon 350D is smaller than the D50 but still uses CF but many people criticise its small size, even adding a battery-grip to improve the handling, so I can't see further miniaturisation of camera bodies being the way forward for DSLR design.
Obviously, the sales of compact cameras will be much greater worldwide, but I wonder how many extra SD cards will be purchased by the average user compared to the extra CF cards bought by SLR users
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Originally Posted by ruchai
I think the future pro cameras will have built-in memories.
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Yes, I can see this coming about - with a high-speed wireless transfer of files to a portable storage device of some sort.
In the good old days of film (less than a decade ago!) the majority of photos were taken on colour-print film. I think the figure was about 91% of the market, with B/W and slide film about equally divided in the share of the remaining 9% - yet there was far more choice in the range of films for the latter two despite their apparent small share of the market, so I think there's plenty of scope for the manufacture of a variety of card formats whilst there's a demand.